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Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
9/16/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/403/thisweek2.shtml
September 16, 2003:
Seattle voters approve Initiative 75 by 57.8% to 42.2%. I-75 instructs
local police and prosecutors to make adult marijuana possession their lowest
priority.
September 17, 1998:
93 members of Congress vote yes in the first vote on medical marijuana
to take place on the floor of the House.
September 17, 2002:
Santa Cruz, California, officials allow a medical marijuana giveaway at
City Hall to protest federal raids.
September 20, 1999:
The public is finally informed of the results of Washington, DC's Initiative
59, the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998,
after Judge Richard Roberts orders the release of the tally previously
suppressed by Congress. Voters had supported medical marijuana by
69-21%
September 21, 1969:
In an attempt to reduce marijuana smuggling from Mexico, the Customs Department,
under Commissioner Myles Ambrose, launches Operation Intercept, subjecting
every vehicle crossing the Mexican border to a three-minute inspection
and to many observers marking the beginning of the modern was on drugs.
The operation lasts two weeks and wreaks economic havoc on both sides of
the border, but fails to seriously impact the flow of marijuana into the
US.
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Issue #403
-- 9/16/05
Feature:
Judges
and
Legislators
from
Across
Latin
America
Call
for
Radical
Drug
Law
Reform
|
Feature:
REFORMA
Issues
the
Buenos
Aires
Declaration,
Eyes
2008
Vienna
UN
Session
|
Feature:
Cannabis
Culture
in
Buenos
Aires
--
Alive
and
Smokin',
But
With
One
Eye
Peeled
for
the
Police
|
Europe:
Former
Scottish
High
Court
Judge
Says
Legalize
It
|
Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Canada:
Liberals
Give
Up
on
Marijuana
Decriminalization
Bill
for
Now
|
Health
Canada
Revisits
Proposal
to
Distribute
Medical
Cannabis
in
Licensed
Pharmacies
|
Latin
America:
In
Continuing
Spat,
US
Decertifies
Venezuela
for
Lack
of
Anti-Drug
Cooperation
|
Web
Scan:
Cato
Pain
Forum,
Slate
on
Rehnquist
and
Placidyl,
Alternet
on
the
Marijuana
War,
NORML
Video
Blog
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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